Eastern Algonquian languages Essays

  • Western Woods Cree People

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    In the eastern Subarctic there was a Native American group called the Cree’s who colonized there. The term Cree came from the French which was a name of one of the bands. The history of the Cree people had a culture with the Ojibwa, or known as the Chippewa. Later on in the nineteenth century they would out that these two groups had different cultural bodies. The case study of the Western Woods Cree happened around the 1750s. At about this time there were 20,000 Western Woods Cree people. Hudson

  • Harry Wells 'The Penobscot Nation (Algonkian'

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    Harry Wells Indian histories Professor Kristy Feldhousen-Giles Final The Penobscot nation (Algonkian by the book) As you may have heard some of my family originate from the Penobscot nation, My grandfather's grandmother was a full blooded Penobscot Indian. This makes me 1/64th, I know it's not much however I have lots of intrigue into my family history and this would be part of it. So I looked into my families history through Indian history and combed pages, internet, and information alike, to

  • Powhatan Research Paper

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    chief, who headed a confederation of tribes in tidewater virginia at the time that the english founded jamestown in 1607. Tribe...At the time English colonists arrived in the spring of 1607, coastal Virginia was inhabited by the Powhatan Indians, an Algonquian-speaking people. The Powhatans were comprised of 30-some tribal groups, with a total population of about 14,000, under the control of Wahunsonacock, sometimes called Powhatan. There challenge...Their challenge was that they were saving jamestown

  • Native American Language

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    away culture and customs and downgraded language. However, in the process of assimilation the Indians were able to leave their mark. Today, exists many Amerind (American Indian) words in our general vocabulary and thousands of place-names honoring aboriginal origins. Europeans and Native Americans have had a linguistically reciprocal relationships that was often related to trading. American tongues have contributed to the vocabularies of European languages, in particular placenames and terms for

  • Native Peoples in New England

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    known as New England share similar languages and cultures, known as Eastern Algonquian, they are not one political or social group. Rather, they comprised and still comprise many sub-groups. For example, the Pequots and Mohegans live in Connecticut, the Wampanoag reside in southeastern Massachusetts, while the Pocumtucks dwelt in the middle Connecticut River Valley near today's Deerfield, Massachusetts.1 Like the elders of other Native communities, Algonquian elders have traditionally transmitted

  • The Powhatan Tribe

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    Have you ever heard of the Powhatan tribe? If not let me share a little fact about them. Powhatan means “waterfall” in the Virginia Algonquian language. The Powhatans didn't live in tepees. They lived in small roundhouses called wigwams, or in larger Iroquois-style longhouses. Another fact is Powhatan warriors used tomahawks or wooden war clubs. They also carried shields. Powhatan hunters used bows and arrows. If you would like to learn more about the Powhatan tribe please continue reading this

  • Quebec, The Province, The People, The History

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    The Province, The People, The History Quebec is a province in eastern Canada, bordered on the north by Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay; on the east by Labrador (Which is a part of Newfoundland), the Strait of Belle Isle, and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence; on the south by New Brunswick, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, and Ontario; and on the west by Ontario, James Bay, and Hudson Bay. The name Quebec is derived from an Algonquian term for "place where the river narrows," referring to the Saint

  • Native Americans: The Original Inhabitants of America

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    The Algonquians on the other hand had tried to take over the Iroquoian territory. The Iroquois had fought and won a battle with the Algonquians for the territory they had lost for 20 years. Other than these two main groups, the Iroquois people were well rounded. All of the many families in a clan, many clans in a tribe, and

  • Cheyenne Indians

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    tribe had a history of movement and separation. From the 1600’s to the beginning of the 1800’s, the Cheyenne Indians dwelled in Minnesota and North and South Dakota. In Minnesota, the tribe lived around the five Great Lakes and they also lived in the eastern parts of the Dakotas. In the early 1800’s, great movement of the Cheyenne tribe occurred. Different tribes nudges the Cheyenne toward the western parts of the country as they took over the Cheyenne’s land. This caused them to be located in various

  • Penobscot Indain History

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    and Bangor. The tribe has adopted the name Penobscot Indian Nation. Penobscot is also the name of the dialect of Eastern Abenaki (an Algonquian language) that the Penobscot people speak Our name is derived by Vetromile from the Pānnawānbskek, 'it forks on the white rocks,' or Penobscot, 'it flows on rocks’. My tribe connected to the Abnaki confederacy (q. v.), closely related in language and customs to the Norridgewock. They are sometimes included in the most numerous tribe of the Abnaki confederacy

  • Eastern Woodland Indians

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    Eastern Woodland Indians by Esha Sundrani 2015 The Native Americans were often grouped by tribes or nations. Currently, there are 24 nations and well over 1000 tribes within America. The Native Americans are grouped based on their language and religion. The Native Americans also had tribes with different political views. They were said to have one of the best political systems until the white man came along. Among the several regions of Native American tribes, there is the Eastern Woodlands

  • Visit To The North Carolina Museum Of History

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    Indian House that covered the history of the American Indians. It was learned that almost 400 years ago the English settled on Roanoke Island and found many Native American living on the coast. These Native Americans spoke three language groups, the Siouan, Iroquoian, and Algonquian. The Indians did not have a writing system, so many of their stories were told on oral traditions. The museum displayed the home of typical American Indian Piedmont Siouan tepee. We got to go inside this home, and watch a short

  • Bacon's Rebellion Essay

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    Racial Slavery - Caused by the Constant Curing of Anxiety Bacon’s Rebellion was highly influenced by the English Civil War. When the English Civil War occurred, the colonies subconsciously took it as an example of the acceptable way to act. The solution to Bacon’s Rebellion follow what the English did with the French’s and Spanish’s plan. Bacon’s Rebellion tweaked the solution of the English Civil War in order to make it most suitable yet, unexpectedly outrageous solution. In order to fully recognize

  • Iroquois Confederacy

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    symbolic longhouse some 300 miles long, with the Mohawk guarding the eastern door and the Seneca the western. The origin of the name Iroquois is uncertain, although it seems to have involved French adaptations of Indian words. Among the possibilities that have been suggested are a blending of hiro (an Iroquois word used to conclude a speech) and koué (an exclamation); ierokwa ("they who smoke"); iakwai ("bear"); or the Algonquian words irin ("real") and ako ("snake") with the French -ois termination

  • Racism and The Cherokee

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    Christopher Columbus “discovered” America in 1492. His discovery happened when Europe and its growing states were ready, both technologically and financially, to explore the world in order to settle trade relationships and colonies. Mercantilism, which is an economic system that measure the wealth of country by the amount of precious metal (ex: gold) which it possessed, drove the policies of expansion of many European countries such as Portugal, Spain, England or France. For instance, England began